Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. A window into Jazz Age Paris as the forces of history close in, The Last Nude is a story of genius and craft, art and money, friendship and desire. Author Ellis Avery imagines their affair from Rafaelas point of view, and the final day of Tamaras life from the painters point of view. Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination.
Author Ellis Avery imagines their affair from Rafaela's point of view, and the final day of Tamara's life from the painter's point of view. The relationship between the artist and her muse lasted less than a year, yet in 1980, just before Tamara died, she was working on a copy of Beautiful Rafaela. Rafaela inspires Tamara's most accomplished and prized works of art, including Beautiful Rafaela, "one of the most important nudes of the twentieth century" (New York Times).
Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist. The second novel by Ellis Avery, author of the award-winning The Teahouse Fire,’’ is a member of an endangered species: the kind of offbeat, risky book that’s threatened with extinction by an. A destitute young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.
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